A well-known entertainer facing a charge of sexually violating a young girl has reappeared in court.

A man whose Christmas Eve sex attack left a woman so deeply shocked she could not speak may be acting strangely, say police.

The prominent comedian facing a child sex charge denies the allegation and will fight to clear his name.

The Marie Jamieson homicide is the first time in NZ that a long-standing murder case has been solved by identifying a suspect through the DNA of a sibling.

An $8.20 roll of salami was the downfall for the killer of Marie Jamieson, allowing police to crack one of Auckland's most mysterious unsolved murders.

Joseph Reekers' change of plea has lifted a great weight off the family of Auckland murder victim Marie Jamieson, say police.

A NZ Olympian accused of sex and violence offences against his wife will have his name suppressed at least until the New Year.

Therapists and counsellors say tight new rules for claiming ACC subsidies for sexual abuse counselling have become "a rapists' charter"

Swimming Australia boss Kevin Neil has vowed that there will be no "cover-up" over accusations of sexual abuse against a former head coach and "inappropriate" behaviour by Alan Thompson, his successor.

The teenager indecently assaulted by a prominent musician has broken her silence, saying police tried to dissuade her from pursuing charges.

One man's house may be his castle but in the case of film-maker Roman Polanski yesterday, released at last from his prison cell just outside Zurich, it is his luxury prison.

A former ambulance driver who indecently assaulted vulnerable patients in the back of his ambulance isn't sure why he did it.